Trading platforms issued restrictions on GameStop, AMC and other shorted stocks that surged to unprecedented highs this week. Lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, expressed deep concern.
The company was far from being the first to register with the Department of Labor as a pooled plan provider. But its fully bundled service, which includes administration, fiduciary oversight and the plan’s investments, indicates that Fidelity is confident that it will not run afoul of the regulator.
In addition changing Reg BI's nomenclature, the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard called for eliminating some broker conflicts of interest, such as compensation incentives for product sales, revising the disclosure Form CRS and clarifying that investment advisers must avoid conflicts of interest rather than just disclosing them.
The deal for Florida-based Fulcrum Partners will expand the footprint of the giant insurance broker’s registered investment adviser.
The deal will reinforce MassMutual’s focus on its retail annuities business. Last year, the company sold its defined-contribution record-keeping business to Empower Retirement via a reinsurance transaction with a ceding commission of $2.35 billion.
Atlanta-based broker Tyler Delahunt had been discharged by the wirehouse over alleged outside investments.
As President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, he will be faced with a run-up in share prices with few parallels.
Clients can still call their advisers to initiate trades in those stocks, a bank spokesperson said. Both companies' shares have surged amid a push from retail traders.
The market frenzy was spurred by social media posts from prominent CEOs and internet influencers. The tweets and threads created internet mayhem and ultimately pushed the video game retail business to a $24 billion market cap.
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The agency is likely parsing the activity to see if there’s deliberate manipulation or collateral effects more broadly on stock prices. Shares of the video game and consumer electronics retailer soared 93% on Tuesday and are up more than eightfold for the month.
The brokers with outages or problems include the most prominent names in the discount and online brokerage industry, including Fidelity, the Charles Schwab Corp., TD Ameritrade, ETrade Financial Corp. and Robinhood.
A social media platform and ready access to mobile trading apps have helped push an otherwise obscure, money-losing videogame retail business to a $21 billion market cap.
Since the GameStop stock options frenzy that quietly began early this month and exploded over the past week, some traders have followed by investing in other shorted stocks, with prices surging far past the returns seen in the indexes that include them.
TIAA Institute research paper finds that even eliminating RMDs would have little effect on government revenues and says the effect on retirees depends on whether they have a bequest motive.
Some retirement plan advisers have cut green investing options from 401(k) plans following Trump's last-minute rule change.
Fidelity's new technology is designed to help advisers create ESG model portfolios and engage clients with impact investing.
As the Biden administration and lawmakers begin negotiations over President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief proposal, state regulators are concerned that private-market deregulation could become a bargaining chip.
Total U.S. annuity sales hit $58.7 billion in the last three months of the year, up 2% from the $57.6 billion during the same timeframe in 2019, according to data published by Limra’s Secure Retirement Institute. But sales were down for the full year.
Record profitability in wealth management in the Americas was driven by growth in loans, separately managed accounts and adviser productivity, the company said.
